How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History

How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake

Christianization and the Making of Norwegian Law: Tor Arne Jørgensen on Kristenrett, Gender Norms, and the Finnmark Witch Trials (1)

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The Terror of the Finnmark Witch Trials of the 17th Century

American children learn about the Salem Witch Trials, in which 25 people killed, but in Europe, between 40,000 and 60,000 people were executed for witchcraft in a 350-year period. A striking number of these trials happened in Finnmark, a rural Norwegian county in the Arctic circle with a population of only 3,000 people. Between 1620 and 1693, 91 people were executed for witchcraft in Finnmark, which was about a third of all those executed for wi…